On November 24, as part of the Vision 2023 journalistic competition, the Prime Minister of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, met with Andrei Kondrashov, the Director General of the Russian News Agency – TASS. The so-called Ambassador of Russia to Abkhazia, Mikhail Shurgalin, and the Head of the representation office of the Federal Agency for the CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Affairs in Abkhazia (Russian House) in Abkhazia, Dmitry Fedotov.

The meeting discussed issues of cooperation between news channels and raising the qualifications of Abkhaz journalists.

The Vision competition was held in Abkhazia for the second year. This year it was dedicated to the memory of a TASS photo-correspondent Andrei Solovyov who died in Sokhumi, on September 27, 1993. According to Russian-Abkhaz sources, Solovyov “was killed by a Georgian sniper.” He was an employee of ITAR-TASS and took many photo shots of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992-1993.